Sylvia Bortin has practiced midwifery since 1976, when she began as an apprentice trained home birth midwife in Idaho. In 1984, she was certified as a Nurse Midwife and licensed in California. She has attended births in hospital and free standing birth center practices, as well as home births. She has a Masters Degree in nursing and is also a Family Nurse Practitioner.
Sylvia has three grown children, the last born at home. She was honored to midwife her daughter-in-law at the birth of her grandson in 1998. Besides midwifery, her loves include gardening, hiking, backpacking, writing poetry and learning to play the cello.
"I believe birth at home with a midwife is the safest place for women with uncomplicated pregnancies. Women are empowered in their own homes, where they make the choices. Babies born at home do not risk having unnecessary interventions or procedures, and they remain with their parents. The furture depends on these children, and I think the most important thing we can do is to bring them into the world with love and tenderness."
Read my poem Transformation
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